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FILMSOCTOBER 2023

(La Cava 1936) My Man Godfrey
(Seke­ly & Fran­cis 1963) The Day of the Triffids
(Schenkel 2001) Mur­der on the Ori­ent Express
(Morse 1954) Man­hunt in Space [MST3K version]
(Hum­bert­sone 1936) Char­lie Chan at the Opera
(Wak­abayashi 1959) Prince of Space [遊星王子] [MST3K version]

First-time listening for October 2023

26622. (James) The Best of James
26623. (George Butts) Breakin’ Out the Past
Hip Hop: The Col­lec­tion ― The Clas­sics, Vol.1, Disk 2:
. . . 26624. (Pret­ty Ricky) “Nev­er Let Go”
. . . 26625. (Puff Did­dy) “I Will Be Miss­ing You”
. . . 26626. (Gwen Ste­fani) “Wind It Up”
. . . 26627. (Mis­sy Elliott) “Get Your Freak On”
. . . 26628. (50 Cent) “This Is How We Do”
. . . 26629. (Obie Trice & Akon) “Snitch”
. . . 26630. (Daniel Bed­ing­field) “I Wan­na Know”
. . . 26631. (Snoop Dogg) “Gin & Juice”
. . . 26632. (Eminem) “Square Dance”
. . . 26633. (Ll Cool J) “Said Knock You Out”
. . . 26634. (Black Eyed Peas) “Pump It”
. . . 26635. (Foxy Brown) “Get Me Home”
. . . 26636. (Lady Sov­er­eign) “Love Me or Hate Me”
. . . 26637. (Mem­phis Bleek) “What You Think of That”
. . . 26638. (P. Did­dy & Ush­er) “I Need a Girl”
. . . 26639. (Sean Paul) “Give It Up To Me”
26640. (Dire Straits) Sul­tans of Swing: The Very Best of Dire Straits
26641. (Mad­ness) Total Mad­ness: The Very Best of Madness

READINGOCTOBER 2023

25257. (Samir Baig) Why We Don’t Care… and How to Get Us To [arti­cle]
25258. (Maria Isabel Puer­ta Rivera) Demo­c­ra­t­ic Back­slid­ing and Autocratization: 
. . . . . The Polit­i­cal Effects of the COVID-19 Pan­dem­ic in Nicaragua and Venuzuela 
25259. (Iain Reid) I’m Think­ing of End­ing Things
25260. (Mar­tin Bru­sis) Con­di­tions and Con­se­quences of Pop­ulism and Democratic 
. . . . . Backsliding
25261. (John Lacy) The Old Troop; or, Mon­sieur Rag­gou [play]
25262. (Kan­tapon Surapr­a­sit, et al) Late Pleis­tocene Human Pale­oe­col­o­gy in the 
. . . . . High­land Savan­na Ecosys­tem of Main­land South­east Asia [arti­cle]
25263. (Alwin Kloekhorst) Luwians, Lydi­ans, Etr­uscans, and Troy ― The Linguistic 
. . . . . Land­scape of North­west­ern Ana­to­lia in the Pre-Clas­si­cal Peri­od [arti­cle]
25264. (Heather Cox Richard­son) West from Appo­mat­tox ― The Recon­struc­tion of 
. . . . . Amer­i­ca after the Civ­il War
25265. (Susan Hayes, et al) A Late Pleis­tocene Woman from Tham Lod, Thailand: 
. . . . . The Influ­ence of Today on a Face from the Past [arti­cle]

Image of the Month — The Party Crasher

Her­nan Bas, “The Par­ty Crash­er” (2014)

FILMSSEPTEMBER 2023

(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.1 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Cardinal
(Grou 2017) Car­di­nal: Ep.2 ― Forty Words for Sor­row: Delorme
(Hitch­cock 1937) Young and Inno­cent [aka The Girl Was Young]
(Lee 1940) The Door with Sev­en Locks
(Jaco­by 1968) Snow Treasure
(Lumet 1957) 12 Angry Men
(Wright 2010) Scott Pil­grim vs. The World

First-time listening for September 2023

26608. (Leonard Cohen) Var­i­ous Positions
26609. (Annie Blan­chard) Annie Blanchard
26610. (Fer­nan­do Sor) Intro­duc­tion and Var­ied Theme for Gui­tar, Op.20
26611. (Leonard Cohen) You Want It Darker
26612. (Rahul Shar­ma) Native Signs
26613. (Kon­duku) Kiran
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READINGSEPTEMBER 2023

25245. (Robert S. Allen) His Majesty’s Indi­an Allies ― British Indi­an Pol­i­cy in the 
. . . . . the Defence of Cana­da 1774–1815
25246. (Paul Howe) Erod­ing Norms and Demo­c­ra­t­ic Decon­sol­i­da­tion [arti­cle]
25247. (Ceren Civlan) A Brief Overview of the Effects of Mediter­ranean Pol­i­tics and 
. . . . . Ottoman-Haps­burg Con­flict on the Mod­ern Euro­pean Iden­ti­ty [arti­cle]
25248. (Jeff Good­ell) The Heat Will Kill You First: Life and Death on a Scorched Planet
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Image of the Month

FILMSAUGUST 2023

(Cor­man 1960) The Fall of the House of Usher
(Cor­man 1961) The Pit and the Pendulum
(Cor­man 1962) The Pre­ma­ture Burial
(Craven 1986) Dead­ly Friend
(Cor­man 1962) Tales of Terror
(Atluri 2023) Vaathi
(Rawl­ins 1942) Ara­bi­an Nights